SCV Food Truck Festival

Today was all about food. Gourmet Food Trucks to be exact. My fam and I got tickets to attend the Food Truck Festival here in SCV. Basically over 30 food trucks arrive and have their best specials available. I have never actually partaken in the LA food truck craze, so I was curious to see what all the fuss was about. Let me tell you...I had some of the best food ever there!

Here is a breakdown of the awesome food I ate today:

1. No Reservations Food Truck: Truffle Fries with Caper Garlic Aioli and Grilled Cheese with Bourbon Pulled Pork, Cheddar Cheese, and a Cranberry Aioli.



This Grilled Cheese was probably the best thing I've eaten in years. Truly amazing!



2. Lobsta Truck: Lobster Sandwich. This sandwich had an entire lobster worth of meat in it on and the bread of like lightly toasted texas toast. Yummers!



3. Nom Nom Food Truck: Lemon Grass Chicken Banh Mi Sandwich. I stood in line for 45 minutes to get this sandwich. We had heard it won awards, and did it ever deserve them! Really tasty and different.




4. Great Balls on Tires: Incrediballs. Gourmet meatball sliders. Mmmmmm



5. Lady Di Cupcake: Reese's Peanut Butter Frosting on a Chocolate Cupcake. Heavenly.




It's a good thing I am training to walk 39 miles, because I ate enough calories today to last a week. So worth it though. Yum, Yum!

3 Day Rule

I was just starting to get bummed out that Mr. Softball wasn't that in to me. I hadn't heard from him in a few days and I figured, oh well, wasn't meant to be. Then to my surprise I get the call last night that he wants to hang out again. Was I a victum to the 3 day rule? I didn't realize that guys actually still followed that rule after the age of 20. And why? So that you leave the girl hanging for 3 days, wondering what she did wrong? To not seem too desperate? I hate these stupid dating rules! In any case, I am actually in to this guy, so I will let it go for now. Are there any other "dating games" that I should expect next?

Save the Tatas

My aunt just talked me into signing up for the Avon Breast Cancer walk in Santa Barbara. It will be 39 miles total, full marathon first day and half marathon second day. It's a bit ambitious but I have 7 months to train. The walk is Sept 17th and 18th. Anyone who wants to join, let me know! We are trying to get a group together for more support and fun.

Donations needed soon, stay tuned!

Mr. Softball and Mr. Auto Body

I finally went out with "Mr. Softball" last night. It was our first time meeting up after chatting on email for a few weeks. I don't want to get my hopes up too soon, but he seems like a really decent guy. We met up at our local suburban water hole, TGI Fridays. I got there a little early to get a bit of liquid courage in me. Fridays was the same place I met up with my old friend I wrote about a few entries before. While driving there I realized it's my awkward moment place, but as it did with my old friend, turned out rather well in the end. He is 5'11', average build/few extra pounds, 29, white, short blond hair, funny, talkative. Kinda of the exact opposite of Mr. Seahawk. We shared a few appetizers and beers. Chatted, watched the all star game, and joked around. We hung out at his place after for a few hours as well. We seemed to hit it off and I'm really feeling him. Which is why I don't want to get my hopes up too soon. To hopefully be continued!

Mr. Auto Body is hopefully done with for now. I finally got my car back and he hasn't texted me or called me since. I was really fed up with him because I could tell they were delaying my car in hopes that I would hook up with him. Was not gonna happen! Even though it took forever, they did a great job and it didn't cost me a dime. It looks brand new again, Yay!

Singles Awareness Day

I am a bitter female and I hate Valentine's Day. I wish I didn't but I do. Even if you are lucky enough to be with someone, there is so much pressure to give the other person exactly what they are expecting.

In related news, I also decided to end things with Mr. Seahawk. Dude was a bit too much for me in several different ways. #1 too old for me, #2 Too kinky for me (I know hard to believe), #3 talked about his work WAY too much. I have two dates lined up this week with Mr. Softball and a new one I will call Mr. Jungle Fever.

This V Day, I was supposed to get my car back, which was going to be a wonderful start to the day. Was it ready? No. In fact they just called and it won't be ready until tomorrow (Wednesday), UGH! I've been without a car for over three weeks now and I'm going stir crazy! I did however get a cute license frame from my mom and I can't wait to put it on my car. It has a single row of "diamonds". It looks just like this one:

Oh yes, I'm fancy like that!

I also had these arrive today for me!

I bought them with a Amazon Gift card I was given for Christmas. I took a class at 24 hour fitness that used kettlebells and it kicked my ass. Summer is coming and so will my abs, LOL!

Save the date

No I'm not getting married, jeesh! Save the date next year for a trip to the nail salon. I went to get my nails did on Chinese New Year the other day and it was probably the best experience ever. I walked in and there was no one in the whole place (joys of going mid day and mid week). Everyone was wearing red and were is great moods. I totally forgot it was Chinese New Year and wished them all a Happy Year of the Rabbit. I don't know if they were all caught up in the joy of the holiday or if they were just impressed a white girl knew what Chinese year it was, but they gave me the red carpet treatment. I got upgrades on everything, longer massages, and she threw in a sea salt scrub and nail design for free. No "5 dolla", just free. Now my toes look effin fantastic and they have fancy artwork on the big toes. LOL! I will definitely be marking my calendar for Chinese New Year and you should too.

Let's take this to the next step...Texting

Ok, I am fully guilty of being an avid texter but when did this become the next step to meetng someone in a relationship? I have hit over 600 text messages in the last month and it's getting a bit excessive. Granted one of the guys I am "seeing" has a really thick accent and I can never understand a damn word he says when he calls me. Let me run you through my daily text messages with him. 9am: Good Morning Beautiful. Awh how sweet, ok I'm up thanks. 10am: What are you doing? My answer: Working, u? him: Working. Great that was worth a text. 12pm: What are you doing? For real dude, I'm still working what do you think? This goes on all day every 2 to 3 hours. I started responding with things like "curing cancer, making goats milk, and baking a cake" followed with "What the fuck do you think... working still, you dumb shit, stop asking!" Ugh. I also have another guy who just texts me "Good Morning" every morning, but he never responds to any other texts I send. I have stopped answering him. It's nice to know I'm on these guys mind, but honestly dude...save the cell phone bill please.

Mending Old Friendships

Last night I met up with a old friend of mine. We were best friends from age 6 to 20. Inseparable for as long as I could remember. Then once I moved to Orange County, we had a huge falling out over the people we had both become and choices we had made. It was my choice to end the friendship at the time and it was one of the hardest things to date that I have ever had to do. We hadn't seen or talked to each other in over 7 years. Then, as I mentioned in an earlier blog, we saw each other at a mutual friend's funeral. I was nervous as hell to see her but we gave each other a hug and it was as if our belated friend had brought us together again. We finally met up last night for the first time since I moved back down south. I wasn't sure how it was going to play out. It was surprisingly not awkward and was really great to catch up with her. We acknowledged what had happened in the past and that we were both trying to figure out who we were at the time. We have too many good memories from the past to let that incident ruin what our friendship could be moving forward. We caught up on our lives from the past 7 years and plan on hanging out more. It was like a huge weight had been lifted and I hope that we can continue to be good friends moving forward.